DayZ, Rust Groups Troll The Day Earlier than Studio’s Closure Announcement

In case you haven’t heard, FNTASTIC, the developer behind The Day Earlier than, introduced its closure lower than every week after launching its zombie recreation in Early Entry.

To accompany the announcement, FNTASTIC posted an announcement on X/Twitter that was oddly structured, which included in the long run of an abridged timeline of FNTASTIC’s historical past from stem to stern. 

Not lengthy after this assertion was launched, the builders behind DayZ and Rust determined to troll FNTASTIC. DayZ developer Bohemia Interactive was the primary to troll FNTASTIC with an announcement of them celebrating DayZ’s tenth anniversary of its launch in Early Entry (although it isn’t for one more 5 days). Bohemia Interactive additionally took a number of different jabs at FNTASTIC, together with how the Early Entry model of DayZ launched with melee. 

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— DayZ ? ? ❤️ (@DayZ) December 11, 2023

In the meantime, the builders behind Rust additionally determined to play alongside. However as a substitute of constructing their very own assertion parodying the identical construction as FNTASTIC’s, they merely used a “pink marker” strategy to switch sure phrases when relevant, as you may see from its publish under. 

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— Rust (@playrust) December 11, 2023

For these unaware, each DayZ and Rust are two open-world survival video games. The previous is an open-world recreation set in a zombie apocalypse, whereas the latter is an open-world survival recreation the place you need to deal with surviving within the wilderness. Each video games began as mods primarily based on Arma 2 earlier than turning into video games that might be launched in Early Entry and finally see full releases years later.

There’s a sure degree of irony that these two accounts are trolling FNTASTIC. Each video games in principle ought to have been rivals to The Day Earlier than, however as many gamers found final week when it launched in Early Entry, FNTASTIC’s zombie recreation was something however an open-world, however somewhat an extraction shooter.

The Day Earlier than was as soon as essentially the most wishlisted recreation on Steam and simply 4 days after its launch on Early Entry, its participant depend dropped to nearly 90 p.c and it’s now one of many worst reviewed video games on Valve’s digital retailer.

Taylor is a Reporter at IGN. You possibly can comply with her on Twitter @TayNixster.